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Tomorrowland music festival stage destroyed by fire
The main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland music festival was destroyed by fire two days before the electronic music event’s first weekend was set to begin. Tomorrowland will still go ahead as planned, organisers said. The festival had estimated that 400,000 people would attend across Tomorrowland’s two weekends, on 18-20 July and 25-27 July. “Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, our beloved Mainstage has been severely damaged,” wrote Tomorrowland. “We can confirm that no one was injured during the incident.” The fire began around 6 pm on Wednesday, local time. Its cause is currently unknown. Firefighters managed to contain the blaze before 8 pm, per the local newspaper Gazet Van Antwerpen, and left the site on Thursday morning. The festival’s main campsite will open near Antwerp on Thursday as previously planned, Tomorrowland said, with organisers set to decide on new scheduling and whether the remains of the stage will be demolished. All the main acts will still perform and additional events in Antwerp and Brussels will go ahead, according to Tomorrowland. The 2025 edition of Tomorrowland will be its 19th, and will feature DJs like David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Charlotte de Witte
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Cargo ship carrying thousands of cars left to burn
A cargo ship carrying thousands of cars has been abandoned in the Pacific Ocean after catching on fire. The Morning Midas cargo ship was travelling from China to Mexico when it caught fire approximately 450 kilometres south of Alaska. The ship was transporting a reported total of 3,159 vehicles, with around 800 being electric, running on lithium ion batteries which when on fire are very difficult to extinguish. The United States Coast Guard Alaska Division was called to the scene of the burning ship by a distress call made on Tuesday afternoon, local time. With the 22 person crew unable to get the fire under control, the Coast Guard made the decision to abandon ship, with all members taken to safety.Credit: U.S. Coast GuardThe ship's current status is unknown, but the Coast Guard reports “smoke is still emanating from the vessel”. “As the search and rescue portion of our response concludes, our crews are working closely with the vessel’s parent company, Zodiac Maritime, to determine the disposition of the vessel,” said the commander of the Coast Guard’s Seventeenth District, Rear Admiral Megan Dean. "We are grateful for the selfless actions of the three nearby vessels who assisted in the response and the crew of
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Car ploughs into fans at Liverpool FC victory parade
A 53 year-old British man has been arrested after the car he was in ploughed into football fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title victory. Reports from The Guardian say up to 47 people were injured including four children - one who remains in a critical condition. Emergency services swarmed to Water Street in the city centre after receiving calls just after 6pm local time as the parade was coming to a close. The driver, a caucasian 53-year-old man from the Liverpool area, was arrested by police at the scene. Authorities have stated that the incident is not being treated as terrorism as investigations continue into the man's motives or condition. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urged people to “give the police the space they need to investigate”. “The scenes in Liverpool are appalling – my thoughts are with all those injured or affected,” Starmer said in a statement.MayhemHundreds of thousands of people had turned out in torrential rain for the jubilant celebrations to see the Red side of Liverpool’s victory parade, with players driven around on an open-topped bus with fireworks. The bus carrying the team had passed by Water Street just minutes before the car ran into the crowd, witnesses told med
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Vatican Conclave decides: Leo XIV is named new Pope
Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost has been elected as the 267th Bishop of Rome by the Vatican's Conclave. The first words of Pope Leo XIV were “Peace be with all of you.” Dominique Mamberti, Cardinal Protodeacon of Rome, announced the new pope to the crowds waiting for the announcement from the central loggia of Saint Peter's Basilica. Annuntio vobis gaudium:HABEMUS PAPAMEminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum Robertum Franciscum Sanctae Romane Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost qui sibi nomen imposuit Leo XIV (translation) I announce to you a great joy: WE HAVE A POPE The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Robert Francis Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Prevost who has taken the name Leo XIV. Pope Leo, 69, will be the first American-born pope. In the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, white smoke abounded from the roof at about 6 pm on Thursday, Rome time (2 am on Friday AEST), which signified the selection of a new pope. Pope Francis, 88, died last month, prompting the election. The Conclave, a top-secret process to select a successor to Francis, who had a 12-year papacy, involved 133 cardinals from five continents. Prevost was elected by Catholic cardinals on the fourth ballot. Vatican leadership t
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Catholic conclave convenes to elect the next pope
The conclave to elect a new pope begins on 7 May at 10am (AEST) with a public holy mass at St Peter’s Basilica. The cardinals have already begun checking into hotels and are barred from the outside world as they decide who will succeed Pope Francis. After the mass, the cardinals will head to the Sistine Chapel, where all cardinals under 80 will cast their first vote for who will be the new leader of the 1.4 billion-member church. While some possible front-runners have been named, many of the 133 cardinals expected to vote said they don’t know who will be elected as the next pope. This year’s conclave is also set to be the most geographically diverse in the church’s history with speakers from 70 countries. The Conclave is likely to be spread out over multiple days, with the longest conclave lasting 1,006 days back in the 13th century. Recent conclaves have been shorter, lasting just two days in 2005 and 2013. There are multiple rounds of voting and to be elected the contender must win two-thirds of the vote to become pope. During the conclave period the voting cardinals will stay in two Vatican guesthouses and take an oath to remain out of contact with anyone not participating in the secret vote. French Card

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Tributes pour in as Pope Francis dies aged 88
Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, has died at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest. His death on Monday at 9:47 am (5:47 pm AEST) at his apartment in Rome was announced in a statement from the Vatican. “Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis,” Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, His Eminence Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell said in the statement. “At 7.35 this morning the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father. His entire life was devoted to service to the Lord and His Church.” Although he had suffered double pneumonia this year and was recently hospitalised for five weeks, the Pope’s death came only a day after he appeared in St. Peter's Square in an open-air vehicle to greet crowds on Easter Sunday and after he briefly met visiting U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. Pope Francis fell into a coma before he died of a stroke and irreversible cardiovascular arrest, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said on the death certificate. His death triggers a nine-day mourning period known as the "novemdiales" in the Catholic Church, with a funeral expected to be held between Friday and Sunday at the
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Dozens killed in stampede at sacred Indian festival
Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede at India's Maha Kumbh Mela festival. Tens of millions of Hindus gathered in north India for the six-week festival, and on the most important day of the festival, went to swim in sacred river waters, under the belief that bathing in three sacred rivers absolves people of sins and brings salvation. Authorities had deployed additional security, medical personnel and with AI-software-based crowd management technology in response to the expected record 100 million people. During the swim on Wednesday, witnesses reported a large push forward that caused devotees to fall on each other. Others said the closure of routes down to the water had the huge, packed crowd at a standstill causing suffocation and collapse. Two local police sources have reported at least 39 were killed in the crush and senior police officer Vaibhav Krishna told reporters that 90 people were taken to the hospital. “More bodies are coming in. We have nearly 40 bodies here. We are transferring them out as well and handing [them] over to families one by one,” one of the sources said at the Moti Lal Nehru Medical College hospital. An official at Prayagraj’s SRN Hospital, where some of the injured were t
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Doomsday Clock now closest to midnight in its history
The Doomsday Clock has been moved one second closer to midnight, from 90 to 89, in response to multiple global threats. The clock was founded back in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons as part of the top secret Manhattan Project in WWII. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock, conveying the possibility of an apocalypse as midnight on the clock face and the time is then set by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, last done in January 2023. Clock factors for the time setting in 2025 include nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence, infectious diseases, and conflicts in both Ukraine and the Middle East. The new time is the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight in its 78-year history, as “humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe” in 2024.Credit: DavidMCEddy“The purpose of the Doomsday Clock is to start a global conversation about the very real existential threats that keep the world’s top scientists awake at night,” Dr Daniel Holz, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said. “National leaders must commence discussions about these global risks before it’s too late.
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'Apocalyptic': Scores die in Turkish resort hotel fire
A fire has killed at least 76 people and injured another 51 after engulfing a ski resort in Türkiye's Bolu mountains. The fire broke out at the 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya at 3:27 local time (12:27 am GMT), where 238 guests were reportedly staying during a busy holiday period. Ali Yerlikaya, Turkish Interior Minister said 45 of the dead have been identified while efforts to identify the other victims were continuing. “We are in deep pain,” said Yerlikaya. Turkish health minister, Kemal Memişoğlu, also said at least one of the people injured was in a serious condition and that 17 others had been discharged from hospital. The cause of the fire is yet to be confirmed by authorities, however, initial reports have suggested that it began on the fourth floor of the hotel in the restaurant. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunç, said on X, four people, including the hotel owner, have been detained over the incident as a part of the investigation. Yerlikaya added, that prosecutors will shed light on the cause of the fire and those responsible will be brought to justice. Reuters reported witnesses describing the scene as “apocalyptic”, with people jumping from windows to escape the flames. Turkis